OBEISANCE – Definition by HyperDictionary.com
As a synonym for obeisance . . . . it seems to have a snide connotation, where one pays courtesies to someone who doesn’t deserve them.
See also: compliance, curtsey, curtsy, genuflection, genuflexion, gesture, kotow, kowtow, motion, salaam, scrape, scraping, submission, truckling